{"id":114,"date":"2001-04-04T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2001-04-05T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:23:18","slug":"i-love-finding-things-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/04\/i-love-finding-things-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I love finding things like this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17005,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.slashdot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160727102706\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.slashdot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:54:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:35:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 03:55:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 08:12:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 05:56:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 05:56:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;I found this over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.com\/\" title=\"Slashdot\">\/.<\/a> in the middle of a discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" title=\"Apple: Mac OS X\">Mac OS X<\/a>. While probably only of interest to my more &#8216;geeky&#8217; friends, I think it&#8217;s damn cool&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Mac OS X is better than I could have imagined!<\/h4>\n<p>  Let me begin by saying that I used to be a rabid, frothing at the mouth Linux\/UNIX advocator. I&#8217;ve been using Linux exclusively for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>  Anyways, when I found out about Mac OS X, I was very excited. I wanted to try it. The interface looked so incredibly well done. Whoever says that Windows has a nice user interface must be joking; I think that the Windows GUI is extremely bland.<\/p>\n<p>  So I bought an iMac 233 for a steal over at eBay. I ran Mac OS X Public Beta for many months in anticipation of the final release.<\/p>\n<p>  The day the final release came out, I was so impressed with Apple hardware and the beta, that I ran out and bought one of the new iMacs just so that I would have the extra speed boost in running OS X.<\/p>\n<p>  Anyways, let me say that I have not been disappointed in the slightest! OS X is everything that Linux should have been. It&#8217;s powerful enough for the command line lovers, but elegant enough for the common desktop user. I don&#8217;t care what anyone says; Linux is not ready for the common user.<\/p>\n<p>  Common Linux scenario. I&#8217;m running KDE with some GNOME apps, along with Netscape 4.77 and emacs. Say I want to change my computer&#8217;s theme. That means I have to find a KDE theme, a GTK theme (and figure out how to install it from KDE), and edit my .Xdefaults file, testing new values for Netscape and emacs until everything is the way I want.<\/p>\n<p>  That&#8217;s just too inconvenient. In fact, after running OS X for a week now, I found that there were a lot of annoying inconveniences that I put up with in Linux that I don&#8217;t have to deal with in OS X. It got to the point with Linux where I was saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m so tired of constant sysadmin battles&#8230;I just want something that works.&#8221; You know what? Mac OS X just works.<\/p>\n<p>  Not to mention the fact that I find Apple hardware far superior. There&#8217;s none of the Intel Driver Hell that I&#8217;ve dealt with using other OSes. I plugged in my iMac (which was equipped with CDRW, ethernet, modem, etc&#8230;) and everything worked, no tweaking necessary.<\/p>\n<p>  What I like the best is the XonX program that a bunch of sourceforgers are working on. By hitting Command-Alt A, I can switch back and forth between my old XFce desktop and my new, spiffy Aqua desktop.<\/p>\n<p>  To those who say that Apple hardware is too expensive&#8230;yes, the powermacs and the cubes are still fairly high in price. If you&#8217;re looking to play around with OS X, pick up an iMac. They&#8217;re very reasonably priced machines that pack a lot of power.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; vorpal^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got to the point with Linux where I was saying, &#8216;I&#8217;m so tired of constant sysadmin battles&#8230;I just want something that works.&#8217; You know what? 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